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The database scanner is multi-threaded: the database scanner uses the main thread to read the database XML file from disk, and additional thread(s) to search the articles based on the user's search criteria, total threads equalling the number of CPU cores (e.g. if quad core CPU without hyperthreading then 1 main and 3 secondary threads). The ...
Database dump — Opens AWB's Dump Scanner to scan a downloaded database dump. The recommended dump is enwiki-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2 . Warning This is a very large file (~18 Gigabytes ), and it is compressed, so after downloading it must be decompressed ( 7-Zip is the recommended free open source tool) before AWB can use it.
AWB normally needs this permission but if you're only using it to create a list of articles, you can use it without logging in. BUT to use the database scanner, you'll need a copy of the text of Wikipedia on your hard drive - the file enwiki-20241120-pages-articles.xml.bz2 is a 20 Gigabyte download from partway down this page, and that has to ...
Wikipedia:HTML 5 – information page on technical details of updating WP code to HTML 5 + CSS3, including how to replace deprecated HTML 4.01 markup; includes automated searches for obsolete markup; Wikipedia:Linter – MediaWiki extension to identify broken and problematic markup which cannot be fixed automatically by the server
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Start downloading a Wikipedia database dump file such as an English Wikipedia dump. It is best to use a download manager such as GetRight so you can resume downloading the file even if your computer crashes or is shut down during the download. Download XAMPPLITE from (you must get the 1.5.0 version for it to work). Make sure to pick the file ...
R2 is also included here, since legitimate R2 deletions usually happen in days, and months-old revisions deleted under an R2 may imply an admin failed to check the history before deleting. G3 is also included here, to check for cases where a page is vandalized and an admin deleted rather than reverting the vandalism, and as a reminder to update ...
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